Renton v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

On the morning of December 21, 1975, the body of John Tillman Hussey, a Springdale Police Officer, was found in a wooded area west of Fayetteville. His hands were handcuffed behind his back and he had been shot four times through the head with his service revolver. In January a felony information was filed charging the appellant and Harold Davey Cassell 1 with the crime of capital felony murder of a police officer acting in the line of duty. Ark. Stat. Ann. § 41-4702 (Supp. 1975). Seventeen months later appellant was arrested in Denver, Colorado, using an assumed name. He…